American Furniture 1996
Luke Beckerdite, ed.

Chipstone Foundation
distributed by UPNE

Table of Contents

Louis Comfort Tiffany and the Reform Movement in Furniture Design: The J. Matthew Meier and Ernest Hagen Commission of 1882-1885 - Milo M. Naeve
Frog Backs and Turkey Legs: The Nomenclature of Vernacular Seating Furniture, 1740-1850 - Nancy Goyne Evans
Designs for Philadelphia Carvers - Richard H. Randall, Jr.
Is It Phyfe? - Deborah Dependahl Waters
Seventeenth-Century Joinery from Braintree, Massachusetts: The Savell Shop Tradition - Peter Follansbee and John D. Alexander
The Rococo, the Grotto, and the Philadelphia High Chest - Jonathan Prown and Richard Miller
Beautiful Specimens, Elegant Patterns: New York Furniture for the Charleston Market, 1810-1840 - Maurie D. McInnis and Robert A. Leath
Boston and New York Leather Chairs: A Reappraisal - Roger Gonzales and Daniel Putnam Brown, Jr.
Admitted into the Mysteries: The Benjamin Bucktrout Masonic Master's Chair - F. Carey Howlett
Immigrant Carvers and the Development of the Rococo Style in New York, 1750-1770 - Luke Beckerdite
The Very Pink of the Mode: Boston Georgian Chairs, Their Export, and Their Influence - Leigh Keno, Joan Barzilay Freund, and Alan Miller

BOOK REVIEWS
American Cabinetmakers: Marked American Furniture, 1640-1940, William C. Ketchum, Jr., and the Museum of American Folk Art - Bert Denker
• Master of Mahogany: Tom Day, Free Black Cabinetmaker,
Mary E. Lyons - Ted Landsmark
• Material Culture of the American Freemasons,
John D. Hamilton - William D. Moore
• The Painted Furniture of French Canada, 1700-1840,
John A. Fleming - Francis J. Puig
• “The Best the Country Affords”: Vermont Furniture, 1765-1850,
Kenneth Joel Zogry, and Vermont Cabinetmakers and Chairmakers Before 1855: A Checklist, Charles A. Robinson, with an introduction by Philip Zea - Edwin A. Churchill




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